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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Planning reform vital to unlock £50bn of transport infrastructure investment for London

Plans for a thirds runway at Heathrow make up the bulk of the investment (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Government was today urged to hack through planning red tape to unlock more than £50 billion of private sector investment in major transport infrastructure.

Campaign group BusinessLDN and consultancy Arcadis warned that without streamlining of Britain’s “byzantine planning system” the capital will fall behind global city competitors.

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